The magic of reality

You have two eyes. They scan these letters and convert them into electrical nerve impulses that quickly find their way into your brain, like a failed and petty New Year's cracker.

Maybe you don't have a brain. Perhaps it's a brain that has you. But what difference does it make to you in your life?

Anyway, you also have a nose, a mouth, ears, and feet. You have a heart that pumps blood and an abdominal cavity that is filled with disgusting entrails. Now you have come here, for some reason.

Reading is a mystical activity, but you don't find it mystical. Not the least. You are so used to reading. It's an everyday thing. But think about it, your brain converts these letters, in some incomprehensible way, to an inner voice that you can clearly hear inside your skull. Isn't this amazing? Is it really me speaking in your brain? If you listen very carefully, you can hear that this voice has a dialect and a tone that you recognize. This is your voice, yes, but it has now been temporarily taken over by me.

Self-knowledge

If you want to clarify for yourself your values, ideals, and worldview, what kind of God you believe in, or do not believe in, what type of person you are, then the best way is to pay attention to your actions and decisions. Your thoughts are not that interesting. Actions speak louder than words.

Examine your decisions, your choices of path in life. Did you stay or did you go? Did you choose money over love? Did you think that it is better to be safe than sorry? Was your career more important to you than friendship? Did you work too much? Did you choose to go that extra mile and to be on your toes, or did you resign to find a less demanding job that gave you more time with your friends and family? 

Are you a churchgoing Christian who stores up for yourself treasures on earth instead of in heaven? Are you a realist, after all? 

Are you a hypocrite? Are you a pretender? 

Examine your actions. Do you abhor modern factory farming, but don't want to pay for organic? Are you a miser? Do you prefer escape, to get as far away from yourself as you can?

Self-exploration may be beneficial, but I don't care. I don't care whether my values and beliefs align with my actions. And I will certainly not try to change them.

Agnosticism

Modern scientists can only explain a small fraction of what is going on in the world. The universe consists of 95% dark matter and dark energy. They don't know what that stuff is. They don't even know what ordinary matter is. What is an electron? What is a quark? They don't know?

They can't explain how electrochemical reactions in the brain can produce consciousness and thoughts. They can't explain how life emerged 4 billion years ago? They don't know what was before the Big Bang. They come up with lots of different hypotheses, but they can't show any evidence to support them.

Religious and spiritual people create their own stories, myths, and fairy tales, and different religions and spiritual teachers offer different explanations.

Why is it so hard to accept that we don't have a clue what life is all about, and why we are here. We don't know if there is a God somewhere. We don't know what will happen to us when we die. We don't know if it is important how we live our lives.

Atheists and theists are of the same wool. They think they know, but they don't.

The inner voice

If you are sitting on a bus, looking out the window, and letting your mind wander freely, you can discover how the everyday mind works.

Isn't it amazing how much BS is going on there inside your skull? Are you talking to yourself or are you talking to someone else? Who are you talking to? Are you talking to an enemy or a friend? Are you explaining yourself to an old lover? Are you talking to your dead parents? Are you talking to your stupid brother? Are you talking to God? How can that be? You are not religious, not at all.

Who is this God that you are talking to? What does he look like? Is he a jealous and vengeful God? Or is it a she? Is she a kind and loving God? Is she a wrathful God, like Kali? Are you asking for help?

Right and wrong

Ethics and morals don't exist at the most fundamental level in nature. There is no right and wrong in the realm of elementary particles. Insects and plants don't care about fairness or equality. Monkeys and apes can exhibit some signs of concern for justice, but the battle between good and evil is played out in the human dimension.

The human brain consists of billions of nerve cells, which are interconnected through dendrites and axons. Moreover, all human brains are interconnected, forming an enormous mind-web, which Teilhard de Chardin referred to as the noosphere. Here is where the battle between the light and the dark forces unfolds.

You have to choose a side. You can't just sit there on the fence forever. The problem is that you don't know which side is the good side. Many decent middle-class Germans chose to support Hitler in the 1930s. They believed he would save them from Jews and communists. For those who survived, it took decades to come to terms with the fact that they had sold their soul to the devil.

Sodium and potassium ions flow in and out through the membranes in the axon, thus creating an electric signal that reaches a synapse, which then releases transmitter substances that activate another neuron.

All your thoughts, emotions, dreams, and fantasies are created by the flow of ions in and out of the neurons. Even your true self is made in this way, like a genie that appears from a magic lamp when you rub it.

You are not the chemicals you are made of. Your mind and your soul, as well as angels and demons, are not to be found in your neurons and their electrochemical reactions. You exist in another dimension.

These words consist of electric bits. But you are not reading bits, you are reading words. The letters in a book consist of ink, but you are not reading ink. Words mean something, while ink is just ink.

You are not your genetic code and the cells you are made of. The law of the jungle does not apply here in this dimension.

The geosphere is the inanimate matter, the biosphere is the animate sphere, the noosphere is the mental sphere, but there is also a fourth sphere, I believe, the mystic sphere. I am not a dualist; I am a quattuoralist.

What's wrong with Donald Trump?

Is Donald Trump a malignant narcissist or simply a selfish ashole? This question interests many people, both in mainstream and alternative media. I think it would be more interesting to understand why so many people vote for him. And why do evangelical Christians vote for him, a man whose main interests are money, women, and power? 

Is it because people want a strong leader who can guide them, serving as a father figure, a commander, a boss, a guru? It doesn't matter where they end up; someone has to take the lead. He can lead his flock straight into hell if he wants to. And everyone is happy that they have a group to belong to. This social behaviour is an inheritance from our distant ape past, I suppose. We share many similarities with our close chimpanzee relatives.

However, some people don't want to lead, and they don't want to be led. They didn't vote for Trump, nor did they vote for Kamala Harris. They didn't bother to vote. They are independent losers. 

Defense

Humanity's defense spending now exceeds $2 trillion annually. But this is not enough; now, a massive military rearmament is the top priority. The whole world is rearming again. We need more nuclear weapons, more missiles, more drones, and more fighter jets. We must defend ourselves against each other. Even the left has jumped on the bandwagon. The fight against climate change has been downgraded.